Classical and Quantum Analysis of One Dimensional Velocity Selection for Ultracold Atoms

Details Classical and Quantum Analysis of One Dimensional Velocity Selection for Ultracold Atoms Classical and Quantum Analysis of One Dimensional Velocity Selection for Ultracold Atoms

2005-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0503028v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

13 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1464-4266/7/9/002

We discuss a velocity selection technique for obtaining cold atoms, in which all atoms below a certain energy are spatially selected from the surrounding atom cloud. Velocity selection can in some cases be more efficient than other cooling techniques for the preparation of ultracold atom clouds in one dimension. With quantum mechanical and classical simulations and theory we present a scheme using a dipole force barrier to select the coldest atoms from a magnetically trapped atom cloud. The dipole and magnetic potentials create a local minimum which traps the coldest atoms. A unique advantage of this technique is the sharp cut-off in the velocity distribution of the sample of selected atoms. Such a non-thermal distribution should prove useful for a variety of experiments, including proposed studies of atomic tunneling and scattering from quantum potentials. We show that when the rms size of the atom cloud is smaller than the local minimum in which the selected atoms are trapped, the velocity selection technique can be more efficient in 1-D than some common techniques such as evaporative cooling. For example, one simulation shows nearly 6% of the atoms retained at a temperature 100 times lower than the starting condition.

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